What would it be like to be abused by the very ones that are supposed to take care of you? To grow up knowing you were more intelligent than the very monsters that raised you- and they called you a ‘retard’ every day.
This was Iris Cooke's dilemma , one she physically escaped but still had to deal with, even at a place like Yale…

"The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame."~Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet and dramatist.

IrisCooke was born in Imperial, P.A., off the Old Steubenville Pike (Route 22 & 30), west of Pittsburgh near the Greater Pittsburgh International Airport. She overcame complete poverty, with no toilet, running water, heat, or food, and complete child abuse and neglect, to be an academic star, who was accepted early action to Yale University and earned the B.S. in Mathematics, the B.S. in Computer Science, and the A.S. in German in four years of study. Ms. Cooke had a notable career as a software engineer during which she won the New Jersey Bell Best Supplier Award in 1990. She has been writing, her second career, since April, 1988.